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A human-accelerated neuron type potentially underlying autism in humans
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Re: A human-accelerated neuron type potentially underlying autism in humans
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lol that’s an interesting comparison. Another angle is that our categorization of what is atypical is the actual problem, and not the symptom itself.
IMO the issue is that we use the term "autism" for two wildly different things. We use it for perfectly functional people who are more sensitive than usual to crowds and noise and prefers a somewhat different style of communication than most people. And we use it for completely non-functional people who can't communicate at all and don't understand what's being communicated to them and throw violent temper tantrums a…
the "level 1, 2 or 3 autism" has started to gain colloquial traction recently
Re: A human-accelerated neuron type potentially underlying autism in humans
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Boys are diagnosed with autism 4 times more than girls by age 8. There's a certain amount of supposition that this is due in part or largely down to "boys being boys" type handwaving, though my two nephews are on the spectrum and neurodivergent behavior in them presented as distinctly different from simply being energetic (one being almost nonverbal). Though it's possible, it seems unlikely to me that there isn't act…
I think boys just present symptoms that are more obvious. Girls with autism are very often much better at masking than boys are.Young girls also tend to fixate on more 'socially acceptable' topics that make that fixation less obvious
Are symptoms not the sole means of diagnosis? So if girls present less symptoms then aren't they therefore less autistic? Or, alternatively, if they present different symptoms then perhaps they have something else?
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I just want to add that autism does not automatically limit these.
I am diagnosed ASD and ADD with high IQ and altruism, empathy and collaboration are core principles of mine - because they are optimizing efficiency and quality of life on a societal level thus affecting the individual as well.
You could argue that I am an exception but all ASD / ADD friends of mine also tend to at least view empathy and collaboration as important / useful and necessary, more so than many of my neurotypical acquaintances (which tend to be more conservative and focus on their small ingroup / family instead of a more societal / communal perspective).
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I just want to add that autism does not automatically limit these. I am diagnosed ASD and ADD with high IQ and altruism, empathy and collaboration are core principles of mine - because they are optimizing efficiency and quality of life on a societal level thus affecting the individual as well. You could argue that I am an exception but all ASD / ADD friends of mine also tend to at least view empathy and collaboration…
I know someone autistic who also describes herself this way and was banished from multiple teams for being politically machevialian while also being incompetent - so YMMV
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Thanks, I am also autistic, so I guess we're evenly matched for this battle to the death :) Also, I wouldn't presume to speak for all autistic people, though I am one. Sometimes people can take the same sentence to mean different things. Please don't assume malice from others where it could be a difference of understanding. I am not mad or anything, I know how it is to misunderstand things.
I just noticed (and got a chuckle out of) something: To me it looks like you first "assumed malice", got called out and now don't want to be assumed malignant yourself. Thanks for the chuckle! But in seriousness: would you mind describing how you interpret your own participation in this thread? I'm fascinated by this behaviour, but I suspect it's as "easy" as you not being able to interpret the original comment in mo…
I said
> but I understand you probably didn’t mean it that way.
Which I assumed the person I was talking to originally would see, read, and understand to mean that their comment was rude but I’m sure they didn’t mean it that way.
Instead, a bunch of others jumped in to interpret it a different way. I don’t see how I supposedly have assumed malice when I literally said that the OP probably wasn’t being malicious in a slightly different way!
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You don't have to die to be selected out of the gene pool, you just need to fail to reproduce. If intelligence contributes to wealth and wealth contributes to reproductive success, then there will be evolutionary pressure favouring intelligence (and any other genes that "come along for the ride" with it).
The reality is that wealth is inversely correlated with fertility. As are intelligence, education, secularity, and so on. IQ is a decent proxy for intelligence. What many people don't know is that it's not a raw score, but relative. The mean of a population is always set to 100 and a standard deviation is generally 15 points. So an IQ of 115 means you performed better than 84% of people, one positive standard deviati…
> The reality is that wealth is inversely correlated with fertility.
Yes and no, it's a lot more nuanced. There can be higher fertility and the very low high and very high end of wealth, but it's also not consistent nor a solid link.
This article looked at as an well illustrated one to me:
https://ifstudies.org/blog/more-money-more-babies-whats-the-...
Re: A human-accelerated neuron type potentially underlying autism in humans
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Is this an intentionally offensive post?
> Collaboration is the reason why we are here, along with altruism and empathy. Autism drastically limits all three.
Autism does not reduce altruism. What are you trying to suggest by this? Autistic people are often the most altruistic people I know; going well above and beyond to help out (sometimes to a fault).
Autism does not reduce empathy. This is a common misconception due to difficulties with reading faces and theory of mind. Empathy is often felt extremely strongly.
Autism does not mean unable to collaborate. Here on HN of all places! The software world is full of asd people happily collaborating to do great things.
> at the cost of losing core human characteristics like altruism, empathy, and the potential for collaboration.
Ahh I get it now. The neurodivergent are not even properly human to you. Perhaps a little eugenics is needed to correct things?